I never broke through on salvia and tbh I'm happy to leave it there... I wouldn't mind doing a chewing of the leaves like Hamilton does in his show but as far as smoking a killer extract, I'd rather have a tryptamine at my disposal!
I never quite broke through either.
I tried growing some back when it was easier to get young plants but it didn't quite take, stayed small, and eventually died. Later I had a neighbor with a bunch of plants, but you really need a ton of leaves in the quid so I never got more than a buzz off of maybe a half dozen fresh ones. I really regret not asking him for some cuttings now though.
I still get anxious about the DMT blastoff, even though I never fully broke through the smoked salvia blastoff was even more intense, I remember seeing the world tessellate into jagged spirals a few times.
Smoking seems a little dangerous, I don't think I have it in me. Would definitely be interested in a tincture or something though.
Reading trip reports and having way more experience with heavy hallucinatory experiences now it's kind of alarming to think of all these unprepared joe-blows on YouTube back in the day hitting that stuff and having no context. Once you get into DMT and hole-dose dissociatives it's like 'oh, now I get it', and I can read a salvia trip report and have some framework... but at least DMT is often mood lifting and kind of euphoric and K anxiolytic.